Things I’ve Learned from you

Never buy an ashtray

just take one from a bar

Always check behind the bathroom mirror

Whip change at homeless people

or give them your broken lighters

For your daughters birthday, loan her 20 bucks

A single gold tooth is lucky

But a full set makes you gay

Never work at a Christmastree farm

There’s a curfew in Vegas for kids under 19

If the cops are wearing sneakers it’s best to run

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the river with the boat the river with the boat the river with the boat red clouds

scribbled on napkins flying away the light leaking the water crawling love

smoking cigarettes with a nosebleed

migraine blackout

take off your clothes and

wait there like an animal

You balance me on the tip of your finger

You make me laugh all the time

It’s hard to pin down

Exactly what I get out of a pill addiction

The kind of blurry pixelated photo

You’re not supposed to take at the strip club

Like playing hopscotch backwards.

Starting from heaven and going down. Balancing

On the head of a pin

It’s hard to grab hold of anything

Any blurry strung out thing

A string of stairs I fall down

breaking my hands open in Mexico City

falling down somewhere

And being pulled back up

a dozen shakey hands that move

like birds do

Ava is an artist currently based in Montreal.